Ocala Schools & Market Update

So are we in a buyer's market or a seller's market? This is probably the question I get asked more than anything else.

Well, aside from how's the market doing? I don't know.

I think it's basically the same question.

Right now, it's complicated.

According to the August 2026 RPR report for Marion County, we're sitting at approximately five months of inventory.

The report places the market right in the transition between a balanced market and a seller's market.

Now, let me explain what that means without making you sit through real estate economics 101.

Months of inventory basically asks, if absolutely no one puts a house on the market, no additional houses come into the market starting tomorrow, how long would it take buyers to absorb what we currently have available? Right now, that's about five months.

And here's the part that jumped out at me.

That five month supply is down about 13% from the previous month.

But compared with 12 months ago, it's down a whopping 63.8%.

That is a huge shift, like huge.

So months of inventory, that's what we've got.

If you look at the graph in the report, you can see why.

Inventory shot way up around late 2025 and then started to come back down dramatically.

I think people were thinking they were gonna get something that they just weren't gonna get at that time.

So when somebody tells you nobody's buying houses in Ocala anymore, That's not what these numbers are showing.

Not at all.

So let's actually look at the numbers and look at prices.

Now, this is what really gets interesting.

The median house price sold for August 2026 was $277,990.

That's down just 0.7% from the previous month.

So basically, fairly flat.

Meanwhile, the median asking price among acting listings was $293,000, which was actually up 1.2% month over month.

And look what's going under contract.

So are we in a buyer's market or a seller's market? This is probably the question I get asked more than anything else.

Well, aside from how's the market doing? I don't know.

I think it's basically the same question.

Right now, it's complicated.

According to the August 2026 RPR report for Marion County, we're sitting at approximately five months of inventory.

The report places the market right in the transition between a balanced market and a seller's market.

Now, let me explain what that means without making you sit through real estate economics 101.

Months of inventory basically asks, if absolutely no one puts a house on the market, no additional houses come into the market starting tomorrow, how long would it take buyers to absorb what we currently have available? Right now, that's about five months.

And here's the part that jumped out at me.

That five month supply is down about 13% from the previous month.

But compared with 12 months ago, it's down a whopping 63.8%.

That is a huge shift, like huge.

So months of inventory, that's what we've got.

If you look at the graph in the report, you can see why.

Inventory shot way up around late 2025 and then started to come back down dramatically.

I think people were thinking they were gonna get something that they just weren't gonna get at that time.

So when somebody tells you nobody's buying houses in Ocala anymore, That's not what these numbers are showing.

Not at all.

So let's actually look at the numbers and look at prices.

Now, this is what really gets interesting.

The median house price sold for August 2026 was $277,990.

That's down just 0.7% from the previous month.

So basically, fairly flat.

Meanwhile, the median asking price among acting listings was $293,000, which was actually up 1.2% month over month.

And look what's going under contract.